Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
How to Read Hard Books | 7 Tips That Actually Work
#Video #Tips #Bibliophile #Reading #Read #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Yes, People Do Buy Books
"How many books are sold in the United States? The only tracker we have is BookScan, which logs point of sale—i.e., customer purchases at stores, websites, etc.—for most of the market. BookScan counted 767 million print sales in 2023."
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/yes-people-do-buy-books
#Bibliophile #Reading #Read #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Proto-Indo-European Gods Explained
#Video #Shorts #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Religion @linguistics @religion
How maps are used and abused in times of conflict
"The dehumanising effect of maps stems from their inherent abstraction. Maps simplify reality by reducing a complex landscape teeming with life and history into lines, symbols and colours. While necessary for clarity, this simplification often has the consequence of stripping away the human element."
https://theconversation.com/how-maps-are-used-and-abused-in-times-of-conflict-227077
"Whether you're a lifelong bibliophile or a new reader, this guide is packed with tips and strategies to enhance your reading experience."
#Video #Tips #Recommendations #Bookworm #Bibliophile #Reading #Read #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Do you mean like this?
I really wish #Mastodon had boosted quoted toots. It's the only thing from that unlamented birdsite I miss.
A doctrine once ingrained in such a way that it becomes a part of a person's sense of self identity can be nigh on impossible to refute irrespective of whether it is based on truth or sophism.
"Our purpose is to demonstrate that the tropes usually today associated with the Corn and Poor Laws – pauperism, a clash between merchant, manufacturing and landlord interests, population and impoverishment – are absent from discussion during this period."
Lanot (Umeå), G. and Tribe (Tartu), K. (2024) ‘Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–96’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2343530.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #C18th #18thCentury #Economics #Europe @econhistory @economics
"Justin’s (third or fourth century CE) summary of Trogus’ story (first century BCE) is the most extensive legendary account we have about the migration of Tyrians to northern Libya (or Africa) and the founding of Carthage."
Philip A. Harland, 'Phoenician diasporas: Timaios of Tauromenion, Trogus, and Appian on the founding of Carthage and on child sacrifice (first century BCE),' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified April 24, 2024, https://philipharland.com/Blog/?p=19907.
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Phoenicia #Carthage #Migration @histodon @histodons
The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books
"Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again".
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #AudioBook #AudioBooks #Bookstodon #Literature #Tips @bookstodon
🇬🇧 One of those questions in life that is an enigma wrapped inside a riddle and formed into a conundrum......
'Why is it cheaper to fly to Manchester than get a train to Liverpool?' | LBC
#Video #Question #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Railways #Transport #Trains
Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out.
"I want to find concepts in the model. I want something that I can grab within the neural network, evidence that there is a thing that represents “apple” internally, that allows it to be consistently referred to by the same word."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-ai-know-what-an-apple-is-she-aims-to-find-out-20240425/
#ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #MachineLearning #NeuralNetworks
#Image attribution: Nopple, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopple_apple.jpg
"Ordnance Survey mapmakers filmed in 1965."
#Video #BritishPathe #Map #Maps #Cartography #OS #OrdnanceSurvey #History #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Vintage
"Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island?"
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#Spain sees US-style economic boost from #immigrant workers where an influx of foreign workers is boosting the supply of #labour and raising its economic #growth rate – a rare feat in the #EU, chart @bcarrebravo @ReutersBiz https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/spain-sees-us-style-economic-boost-immigrant-workers-2024-04-24/
Early warning sign of extinction?
"Using a high-resolution global dataset of planktonic foraminifera fossils that’s among the richest biological archives available to science, researchers have found that environmental events leading to mass extinctions are reliably preceded by subtle changes in how a biological community is composed, acting as an early warning signal."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/early-warning-sign-of-extinction/
America's Drunkest Counties
"The map is based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which defines excessive drinking as either binge drinking (men 5 drinks in a single session, women 4 drinks in a single session) or heavy drinking (men drinking more than 15 drinks in a week, women drinking 8 drinks in a week)."
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/04/americas-drunkest-counties.html
#Map #Maps #Cartography #Alcohol #USA #US #UnitedtStates #America
"We present a set of large pedigrees, reconstructed using ancient DNA, spanning nine generations and comprising around 300 individuals. We uncover a strict patrilineal kinship system, in which patrilocality and female exogamy were the norm and multiple reproductive partnering and levirate unions were common. The absence of consanguinity indicates that this society maintained a detailed memory of ancestry over generations."
Gnecchi-Ruscone, G.A., Rácz, Z., Samu, L. et al. Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07312-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science #Avars #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @histodon @histodons
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
